Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological work for divining the future through the analysis of signs in the constellations (nakṣatras) and other heavenly bodies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22r).
Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-21, [22], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated on the year Vilaṃnābāma most likely equivalent to the years 1838-1839 or possibly 1768-1769 based on the condition of the manuscript. The saṃvat and śaka dates are not written though the words are written.
Colophon: iti tīmuṃjādityena viracitaṃ jyotiśāstrabālabodhakakhyāsārasaṃgrahasamāptaḥ // śubham astu sa[ṃ]vat śake vilaṃnābāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭakṛṣṇā 10 bhṛgudine likhyāt // śukrodayaphalaṃ (f. 22r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, numbers, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 5039 (UP 1830).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1830.

OCLC:

945375611